Heavily disagree here, there's tons of funky music that's played or programmed bang on the grid. Pretty much all early house was created with drum machines and lots of people got into it.bmrzycki wrote:Humans loathe perfect repetition. I tend to think this is because nothing alive repeats itself identically each iteration. Much like a semi-real plastic mask creeps us out our ears detect the how fake perfect repetition and spacing in sound really is.
Rock solid timing tends to "harden" a track, sometimes that's appropriate, other times, not.
Impossibly perfect timing combined with either monotony (endless looping) or extreme complexity (think aphex/squarepusher) can also create a sense of surreality or transcending time, in my experience.